How do judges of the Court of Appeals of Texas reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 2000 / Active

Anne Gardner

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Anne Gardner is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, serving since 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2000 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Gardner authored 231 published opinions for the court (2000–2016), plus 7 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Best v. State (687 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 171 of these were attributed to Gardner by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2003	Best v. State†	118 S.W.3d 857	687
2000	In the Interest of D.T.†	34 S.W.3d 625	650
2001	In the Interest of D.M.†	58 S.W.3d 801	643
2003	James v. State†	102 S.W.3d 162	234
2011	in the Interest of M.E.-M.N, Minor Child†	342 S.W.3d 254	180
2008	in the Interest of D.W., T.W., and S.G., Children†	249 S.W.3d 625	161
2006	In the Interest of K.D.	202 S.W.3d 860	134
2004	in the Interest of K.A.S., J.G.S. and W.S., II†	131 S.W.3d 215	122
2009	AMX Enterprises, L.L.P. v. Master Realty Corp.†	283 S.W.3d 506	110
2001	Michel v. Rocket Engineering Corp.†	45 S.W.3d 658	109
2005	Morrell v. Finke· Dissent†	184 S.W.3d 257	99
2002	Barnes v. State†	70 S.W.3d 294	95
2008	Fowler v. State	266 S.W.3d 498	94
2002	Rogers v. City of Fort Worth†	89 S.W.3d 265	94
2004	in the Interest of J.J.O.†	131 S.W.3d 618	91

Showing the 15 most-cited of 248 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Court of Appeals of Texas reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court is Anne Gardner on?: Anne Gardner is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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26 years on the Court of Appeals of Texas. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).